New owners from 23rd August There is to be a change of ownership of both my rope sales businesses. After nearly 20 years, it’s time to take it easy. I ceased taking orders on ESINEM-Rope.com (retail), and EU-Rope.co.uk (trade) as of 22nd August. However, Nina and I will continue with ShibariClasses. The new owners will …
A better way to learn shibari suspension There’s a new and different way to learn to suspend creatively. The ShibariClasses ‘Suspension: Mega-bundle’ complete online shibari suspension course by Bruce Esinem and Nina Russ for only $25 per month. The good news is that, with a single low monthly subscription, you can now access tutorials covering …
Special promotions at ESINEM-Rope.com We are running some special promotions at ESINEM-Rope which will give you up to 30% off your order of bondage rope and accessories and FREE shipping to anywhere in the world. Our prices are already highly competitive on jute, hemp and synthetic rope but these prices are just crazy low! All …
More than 30 hours on detailed instruction We have just added ‘Nina’s 2-rope gote’ to ‘One and two rope ties’ and to the bundled shibari tutorials, so the $18 ‘Introducing shibari: Mega-bundle’ is even better value way to learn shibari with well over 30 hours of in-depth tutorials to give you a deep understanding. You …
Teaching shibari, not just patterns The new shibari tutorials, which I posted about recently, ‘One and two rope ties‘ for the ‘Introducing shibari: Mega-bundle’ have just been uploaded. The course bundle now has 31.5 hours of detailed shibari tutorials for just $18 pm (+tax where applicable). The new classes use no more than two ropes …
Due to the success of the new construction of our Clara Premium jute rope, this method is being extended to other bondage ropes. The advantage is that it ensures more even tension between the yarns. This means that it stays in balance, thus requiring less maintenance and giving longer life. It also eliminates the faults, …
A better structured way to learn shibari We are expanding the ‘Introducing shibari: Mega-bundle’ with more new shibari tutorials on ShibariClasses. Over the past couple of days, we have shot several shibari tutorials to add to this ever-growing course bundle. This structured course is the best $18 (+ local tax where applicable) that you will …
‘Introducing shibari: Mega-bundle’ only $18pm We have decided to offer a totally new option where you can access all Nina and I’s beginner and intermediate courses for just $18pm in the ‘Introducing shibari: Mega-bundle’. For this, you get 30 hours of content. This is less that we were charging for just one of the included …
Finally, all the bits I needed for a prototype arrived for the great Arduino-based shibari suspension experiment. The latest arrival was six FSRs which will sense to load. This meant I could test reading all the sensors and displaying the recorded loads. It lives! As I have almost zero experience in these things, I found …
ShibariClasses.com is planning a project that will attempt to record loads at multiple points during a shibari rope suspension so we can add empirical data to the wealth of experience offered by our teachers. I will document the trials, tribulations and, hopefully, successes of our suspension experiment for your edification. As this is testing the …